March 2007  |  Issue Three
 
 
 
 
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This month's
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By Heidi Dillon
     
 
There's more to the life of a scene editor-at-large than just going to parties.  The week after the Balenciaga exhibition opened at the Meadow's Museum, I attended an international symposium entitled "Balenciaga and the Transformation of 20th Century Fashion”.  Five world-renown scholars spoke including Myra Walker, Curator and Director of the Texas Fashion Collection, Pamela Golbin, Curator of 20th century Fashion, Musee de la Mode et du Textile at the Louvre, Maggie Eckardt, a former model for Balenciaga, Jean Druesedow, Director of the Kent State University Museum, and Harold Koda, Curator of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The symposium was an all day affair and held the 400 attendees in rapt attention the entire time.  I was invited to have lunch with the speakers and Mark Roglan, Director of the Meadow's Museum.  With five fashion experts in the room, the conversation was right up my alley.  Harold Koda was so cute.  He didn't want to have his picture taken, but I wouldn't take no for an answer and then he made me swear not to publish it.  
  


Myra Walker & Harold Koda
 
 


Dallas Designer Abi Ferrin at New York Fashion Week
 
Most of you probably are under the mistaken impression that going to the shows during Fashion Week in New York is glamorous.  Well I went and I'm here to tell you it is anything but.  Unless you're a movie star or Anna Wintor, you're nobody.  You spend most of the day standing around waiting to get into the shows.  Once you get in, it takes forever for everyone to get seated and after all of that, the show only lasts 10 minutes.  Then it takes another forever to get out of the tent and it's time to go stand in line for the next show.  My feet hurt just talking about it.  Oh, and forget about actually seeing anything.  Only first row has a good view and I didn't rate those seats.  So, here's my advice to you:  stay home and check out the shows on www.style.com
 
 
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Kenny Goss and Goss Gallery director Filippo Tattoni-Marcozi know everyone in Europe, that's why they are able to bring us the hottest talent from the international art scene.  London's biggest collectors snap up Adam Ball's startlingly beautiful paintings.  I met Adam and his dealer, Count Manfredi della Gherardesca the other night at Goss.  The Count, who owns a castle in Italy, was very dashing and interestingly attired in a pinstripe suit and print shirt, an outfit that made our local boys look a little drab.  Joyce Goss told me he is on the international best-dressed list.  Adam's gorgeous Pop Art inspired paintings of foliage and landscapes are certain to sell out as quickly in Dallas as they do in London.  After the opening, Angie Barrett hosted a dinner party for 30 at her Beverly Drive home.  You can see the show at Goss Gallery through March 17.